Day one as an intern

Today was my first day of work at the Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut in Tubingen. Angelika told me that a walk from our apartment to the d.a.i was about a 20 minute walk, but I had decided earlier on that I was just going to walk there and was paranoid about being late. The walk turned out to be a lot shorter than 20 minutes, especially since Tubingen isn't a very large city, so I got there pretty early. I didn't want to walk into work on the first day a half hour early, so I walked around the area nearby, got some breakfast, and spotted a Mueller that I wanted to visit later.
When it was time for me to go to work, I entered the d.a.i building and immediately met the secretary, who was more than happy to welcome me and show me around a little bit. I didn't really know what to expect about the d.a.i, but I like it a lot. It is basically a non-profit organization that was originally established by the American government to inform Germans about American culture and help them learn English. I work full time, which is from nine in the morning until six in the afternoon, with a small coffee break around 11 and a lunch break between one and two. So far my tasks have included translating the new website from German into English, creating a new poster for the "Book Flea Market," shredding paper, brainstorming for the Youth Camp at the beginning of August, and other small tasks. The d.a.i offers many cool programs to the German community and I am almost jealous that we don't have anything like it in the U.S. It seems they have so many opportunities to study abroad and learn English, whereas our language training is the mandatory credits needed to graduate both high school and college and everybody knows that half of the time these are a joke, considering after four more years you are no better able to hold a conversation in Spanish than you were when you started out. It's only the select few that get really lucky with awesome teachers. It seems that it is as normal as breathing to study abroad here as well. I feel like back in the states its not out of the ordinary, but its not common. Here everybody I have talked to so far has studied abroad in a least one, in most cases multiple, places.
The Youth Camp that I am helping out with is among another activity that I am jealous we don't have anything like. During the camp, kids ages 6 to 12 get to go to a nearby city named Allgau for a week where they are only allowed to speak English except in some German-speaking designated zones. They have english classes in the morning, but afterwards they have fun activities like a high ropes course, or swimming at the nearby lake. I am supposed to help come up with activities and ideas that are "typical American." What is typical American anyways?